Oracle Extends Maintenance Support For 8i Until 2005

"Oracle has again extended maintenance support for customers of its 8i database on many major platforms, this time until 2005, giving firms another year to migrate to 9i or 10g." reports vnunet.com. "The database giant has extended Error Correction Support (ECS) on the Oracle 8i database version 8.1.7 and 8.1.7.x until 31 December, 2004 for Windows and most recent Unix releases. However, companies currently running 8i on older platforms including OS/390 will see support terminated on the original deadline of 31 December of this year."